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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

Inspectorators' Daily Politics Podcast and Katie Balls,

and I'm John McPhraes and Nelson and James Forsyth.

The hope in number 10 this week was that Boris Johnson would apologise to the House

and it would be the beginning of the end for the Prime Minister.

That's what he told MPs when he privately addressed them.

Yet James, the vote that Labour called for referring Boris Johnson for an inquiry by a

commons committee has exposed the level of discomfort in the party.

Yeah, I think it was a clever move by Labour because it forced Tory MPs to think about

what they themselves wanted to do. I think Tory MPs are in this odd dynamic at the moment where

they're not prepared to move against Boris Johnson at the moment.

But they're also not prepared to go out of their way to support him.

And what Labour's motion did was it put them all on the spot.

So you ended up in this odd situation where the government initially tried to put down a delaying

amendment. Then it found that it didn't have enough support for that, so it had to pull it.

And so we've got another inquiry. I think one of the

inconsequence of that is that in this probably this inquiry, this privileges committee

inquiries where the Boris Johnson deliberately must have the House of Commons or not,

probably won't report until we autumn. So this story, which is exhausting Tory MPs, which has

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